Subclass of:

• aaao:ZE55 Social Relation Status

Scope note:

An instance of family status is the collective ascription of a familial relationship between one person and another by a community. The substance of the family status is the communal recognition of the familial connection between the two actors in question.

Instances of family status are recognizable through evidence of community members adopting the intentional stance  and behaviour indicated as proper to this relation, as observable from direct witnesses, through the reports of competent observers or through evidence of a declarative act (e.g.: adoption) initiating this status.

Instances of family status may come to be simply through birth in a certain community or may require that a formal process such as a right of passage has been undertaken. Instances of family status may end either though a formal process such as a renunciation or through death.  

Examples:

• The Family Status (ZE10) of Trajan (E21) as 'is father of' adoptive son of Nerva (E21) 97BCE - 117BCE holds for the Roman Republic (E74)(https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adoption_in_ancient_Rome) 
• The Family Status (ZE10) of Michael Leshner (E21) as 'has husband' Michael Stark (E21) 2003 - Present holds for the Supreme Court of Canada (E74) (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Leshner_and_Michael_Stark)

In First Order Logic:

• ZE10(x) ⇒ ZE55(x)

Outgoing properties:

• aaao:ZP29 has familial subject (is familial subject of) (1,1:0,n) → crm:E21 Person
• aaao:ZP30 ascribes relative (is relative ascribed by) (1,1:0,n) → crm:E21 Person
• aaao:ZP31 ascribes familial relation (is familial relation ascribed by) (1,1:0,n) → crm:E55 Type